Book description
Like Stephen Krashen's important work in The Power of Reading, Story Proof collects and analyzes the research that validates the importance of story, story reading, and storytelling to the brain development and education of children and adults. Accomplished researcher and storyteller Kendall Haven, establishes the need for understanding the research…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Story Proof as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book should be called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Storytelling but Were Afraid to Ask."
I love the fact that it asks and answers the fundamental question, "So, what is a story?" and explains why humans tell stories, what happens in our brains when we listen to them, and how we instinctively follow story structures.
It gave me a solid introduction to the neuroscience of storytelling and explains why we are predisposed and even designed to think in stories.
From Beverley's list on the power of telling your own story.
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